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AWS aws-backup documentation change

Service: aws-backup · 2025-05-16 · Documentation low

File: aws-backup/latest/devguide/manage-cross-account.md

Summary

Restructured cross-account management documentation, removed redundant content, and clarified regional availability details

Security assessment

Improves clarity around cross-account backup security controls and policies, but changes are organizational/descriptive rather than addressing specific security issues.

Diff

diff --git a/aws-backup/latest/devguide/manage-cross-account.md b/aws-backup/latest/devguide/manage-cross-account.md
index 19426b405..e3d535d42 100644
--- a//aws-backup/latest/devguide/manage-cross-account.md
+++ b//aws-backup/latest/devguide/manage-cross-account.md
@@ -23 +23 @@ In this example, backup policy A and backup policy B were merged into a single b
-Please see [ Feature availability by AWS Region](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/whatisbackup.html#features-by-region) to see where the cross-account management feature is available.
+Cross-account management consists of cross-account monitoring, cross-account backups, backup policies, and delegated administrator accounts. Not all of these elements are available in all Regions. For information about where cross-account management is available, see [Feature availability by AWS Region](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/whatisbackup.html#features-by-region) .
@@ -25 +25 @@ Please see [ Feature availability by AWS Region](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws
-To use cross-account management, you must follow these steps:
+###### To use cross-account management
@@ -42,13 +41,0 @@ For backup plans that are managed by Organizations, the resource opt-in settings
-Cross-account management consists of cross-account monitoring, cross-account backups, backup policies, and delegated administrator accounts. Not all of these elements are available in all Regions.
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-Cross-account management in AWS Regions where opt-in is required includes cross-account monitoring and access to backup policies; delegated administrator accounts can launch policies but do not have access to the monitoring functions.
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-| Cross-account monitoring | Cross-account backups | Backup policies | Delegated administrator  
----|---|---|---|---  
-**Availability** | All commercial AWS Regions except China (Beijing), China (Ningxia), AWS GovCloud (US-East), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). | All commercial AWS Regions except China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia). | All AWS Regions listed under Cross-account management column in [Feature availability by AWS Region](./backup-feature-availability.html#features-by-region). |  Access to backup policies in all commercial AWS Regions but cannot conduct cross-account monitoring where opt-in is required.  
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-###### Contents
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@@ -70 +57 @@ The backup policies you create will have a backup plan, but they will also ident
-See more detail at [Syntax for backup policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_manage_policies_backup_syntax.html#backup-policy-syntax-reference) in the _AWS Organizations User Guide_.
+For more information, see [Syntax for backup policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_manage_policies_backup_syntax.html#backup-policy-syntax-reference) in the _AWS Organizations User Guide_.